Banshee 1.6 Released
Banshee 1.6 is a stable release, the culmination of a 14 months of work by 53 developers, 265 bugs were fixed since 1.5.1.
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New features and enhancements:
- Play Queue Auto DJ
Keep playing music according to selected artist, album, song, rating, or score mode randomly in a Play Queue.
- Sync Device From Playlist
Either manually manage what files are added or removed to your device, or choose a playlist to sync from. You can make a size-limited smart playlist to sync just the right amount to your device. - Grid View
A new grid mode visible in the modified Album browser.
- Type-ahead Find in Track, Artist, and Album Lists
Type-ahead Find jumps you to the first track to match your query, it is an alternative to filtering. - Automatic Scoring
Songs are now given scores, updated as they are played and skiped. The score can be used in searches and smart playlists, and serve as a basis for ratings. - New Shuffle Modes
In regular shuffle mode, songs can be shuffled randomly by Song, Artists or Album where every track has an equal probability. Newly added modes are shuffled by Rating and Score, where favorite songs are played more frequently. - Audiobooks Library
- Library-folder Watcher
- eMusic Importer/Downloader
- Internet Archive Extension
- YouTube Extension
This extension shows YouTube videos in the Context Pane related to what is being played. Selected YouTube video can be played within Banshee. - Improved Metadata Handling
- Banshee Community Extensions
Banshee is written to be easily enhanced by extensions. In fact, the Play Queue, Podcasting, and Last.fm support are all extensions. Extensions can be turned on and off within the Extensions tab of the Preferences dialog (under the Edit menu).Many extensions are included in Banshee itself. Others are developed and packaged with Banshee Community Extensions.
A new sub-project named Banshee Community Extensions has been created. Its code is hosted on Gitorious, and its bugs tracked in bugzilla.gnome.org.
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Currently 15 extensions are hosted:
- Alarm Clock – Wake up or go to sleep to a selection of your own music.
- AppIndicator – Use the new application indicator area available in Ubuntu.
- Awn – Sets the current album cover as banshee icon in awn.
- ClutterFlow – A CoverFlow clone that allows you to browse your album collection.
- Cover Wallpaper – Sets the current playing album cover as the GNOME desktop wallpaper.
- LCD – Display track info on a LCD using LCDproc.
- Lirc – Control Banshee via a normal (infrared) remote control. Requires LIRC.
- Live Radio – Another way to discover internet radio stations.
- Lyrics – Fetches and displays lyrics for the current song.
- Magnatune – Listen to streamed music from Magnatune.com.
- Mirage – Adds playback shuffle-by-similar and Auto DJ fill-by-similar modes, based on songs' acoustic similarity.
- Radio Station Fetcher – Fetch radio stations from shoutcast.com and xiph.org.
- Stream Recorder – Record internet-radio streams.
- Telepathy – Browse your IM friends' music library, download or stream their tracks and share what you're listening to.
- Ubuntu One Music Store – Browse, preview and download songs from the Ubuntu One Music Store.
- and much more
Banshee is packaged for many Linux distributions, and is the default media player for several.
Banshee for Mac OS X is a beta-quality technology preview with no device (iPod etc) support, CD support, or video support. It is not yet as complete or as stable as Linux releases. Banshee for OS X runs on Intel 10.5 and newer. 10.4 and older and the PowerPC architecture are not supported.
Banshee is a free open source software released under the MIT/X11 license.
banshee-project.org: CC-BY-SA-3.0
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